Hello all,
Happy to see progress here.
My ongoing question is how to define that a "local" group has
determined that an import can proceed. And more specifically what is
"local"? There are rural and remote parts of Canada which have in the
order of zero active mappers or sense of a local
countries=Canada
> (they aren't necessarily representative of the community,
but it's
> really the closest we can reasonably do given our current
tooling) [3]
> (no private message responses)
> - posted on OSM Canada Slack on 17 August
Hello,
Just a note to advise that OSMOSE QA tool now has smaller areas to
process in Québec rather than one area for the entire province. The
tool is now using the admin_level=5 boundaries. This follows the same
change done for Ontario earlier this year. The reason to split up a
province
Le lundi 2 septembre 2019 11 h 24 min 08 s UTC−4, Matthew Darwin
a écrit :
Hello,
I was looking at the admin_level=5 boundaries in Québec, and I
notice they appear to not be named consistently (list below).
Possible issues:
* m-dash vs n-dash to separate names (compare
Gaspésie–Îles
Hello,
I was looking at the admin_level=5 boundaries in Québec, and I notice
they appear to not be named consistently (list below). Possible issues:
* m-dash vs n-dash to separate names (compare
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine vs Abitibi-Témiscamingue)
* spaces between names (compare
Hello all,
OSMOSE now has validations for phone numbers in Canada.
http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/errors/?country=canada_%2A=2500=3092
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Hello all,
I'm not sure if this applies to other provinces or not, so I thought I
would ask here.
In Ontario there is a concept of "Business Improvement Area" ("BIA"
for short) that has the power to tax businesses within their zone
(see http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx for details).
Andrew,
Keep up the great work making OSM great for Canada.
On 2018-11-27 1:36 p.m., Andrew Lester wrote:
I agree. A selective import from CANVEC is fine and generally gives
good results. As long as you don't import things like forests and
buildings (which are both woefully out-of-date,
Of course.
Could use the ottawa import approach: "leave existing buildings alone".
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2018-11-02 7:03 p.m., OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
On Nov 2, 2018, at 3:58 PM, John Whelan wrote:
So to paraphrase your reply. A centrali
I think we should identify who would like to be involved in import for
each municipality. (on a wiki page). On the page, identify roles,
like:
* coordinator
* import data preparation
* QA
* import execution
* data enrichment (commercial, residential, etc... tagging)
* etc..
Then we
Forwarded Message
Subject:BC2020i - update Sept 2018
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:54:41 +
From: Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN)
To: many
Dear all,
I hope you had a good and relaxing summer. I imagine this email will
find you all back in the office or at
Hi Olivia,
I spent some fixing tags on TCH ways in *Ontario* in the last few
weeks. Do an overpass query on nat_name=Trans-Canada Highway in
Ontario (see below).
Is it possible to build a query that shows ways with
nat_name=Trans-Canada Highway and not part of the relation, and
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Subject:Re: Building Canada 2020 (BC2020i) - update Dec 20, 2017
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:21:22 -0500
From: keith hartley
Hi building 20/20 list
Last Friday I worked with one of my colleagues and a high school
TCH), so the naming is consistent only within
a province. Please review
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Highway
On 2018-03-26 09:25 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
* Another question is related to the priority of the names in the
name value tag and also for the ref tag. If we have a way t
On 2018-03-26 07:20 AM, Olivia Robu - (p) wrote:
Hello,
The Telenav Map team has done some research on the status of the
ways and relations of Trans-Canada Highway.
Here are some conclusions from this research:
* The highway is formed from 30 routes;
The Trans-Canada highway is not
, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca
<mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>> wrote:
Hi all,
I noticed some poorly drawn (not-square) buildings in Calgary
tagged with the hashags
#GEOG231-W18;#BC2020;#UCalgary-GEOG231;#BC2020-UCalgary. If you
are involved in this project, yo
Pierre,
This is a good idea, and I plan to do it. My current challenge is to
know what things people think "need correction". I'm starting these
discussions to see if there is any consensus before I go writing
code. If you (or anyone else) has ideas, please do post here (or
email
Searching on "110 Laurier Avenue West, on" in Nominatim already works
(it finds Ottawa City hall) even though the address has no
addr:province tag for City Halle. So I don't think this is a good
reason to be adding addr:province/addr:province:short_name tags. IMO.
Unless there is another use
Hi all,
I noticed some poorly drawn (not-square) buildings in Calgary tagged
with the hashags
#GEOG231-W18;#BC2020;#UCalgary-GEOG231;#BC2020-UCalgary. If you are
involved in this project, you might want to review the quality. I
added a "fixme" tag to the problems I happen to notice.
So I've tidied up the addr:province/state tags, now using only
addr:province, leaving anything that would be generally considered
"correct" either spelt out in full or using English provincial
abbreviation as you might use in a mailing address. Also left "Quebec"
(no accent).
I would rather
Rob,
One other thing to think about while others are discussing the
licensing topic: What is the quality of the buildings? Has that been
reviewed?
* Are they in the right place?
* Are they the right size?
* Are they squared off (rectangles)
* Are they aligned to each other and the road
of the
educational and local planning structures and processes at the
municipal and regional level. Alessandro and his colleagues at the
TB Open Data branch are well aware of what we are trying to do.
Jonathan
*From: *Matthew Darwin <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>
*Sent: *Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9
Hi Jonathan,
Are you trying to set up the tasking manager, or you just want to add
a project to the existing tasking manager http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/?
If you describe the details of what you're trying to accomplish (look
at existing tasks), then someone can probably add a task for you.
rt
112 Village Of Hilton Beach
and I think that's it for Ontario.
On 2018-02-23 11:50 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
I will leave the wonky towns (the ones that have parentheses) for
cleanup later. The other "Town Of" are d
I will leave the wonky towns (the ones that have parentheses) for
cleanup later. The other "Town Of" are done.
I am working on "Municipality Of" now.
On 2018-02-18 11:04 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the feedback. OSM is updated accordingly.
I also cha
.
/Suggestion:/ Name these streets/avenues with the full name (such as
51st Street Northeast) and let the renderer sort out the abbreviation
where required. Where the numbering system ends below 30, consider
spelling out the numbers.
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2018
ned as expanded in
OSM. If it is not normally expanded, then it is not expanded in
OSM. "Saint John" (NB) and "St. John's" (NL) are both correct.
Feel free to clarify further on the wiki or continue the discussion
here...
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.
11:25 AM, john whelan wrote:
So what we are saying is the city field should be filled in not with
the physical city but with Canada Posts thoughts of the day?
Orleans is different. It never was a municipality.
Cheerio John
On 19 February 2018 at 11:17, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca
t basis I'd say yes, Maple is definitely a suburb of
Vaughan, as are 1/2 of Thornhill, Concord, Woodbridge, and
Kleinburg. Purpleville and Nashville should likely be classified as
neighbourhoods, and Hope and Burrlington (note double "r") as
pioneer communities.
16796 Town
In my OSM map updates to remove of "City of" and similar prefixes from
locality names, I will not be expanding any "St", "Ste" or any other
abbreviations of those names. If the name (minus the prefix to be
removed) matches what is in NRCan database, I will remove the prefix;
if it doesn't, I
To start the cleanup process, the following *Ontario* cities are being
changed (remove "City of" or "City Of"). Once that is done, I'll
come back with the next batch to process...
The idea to remove the city name in its entirety will require careful
consideration to ensure the necessary
be a
more reasonable at this time. (addr:country is used ~94% less than
addr:street)
Tags, by number of occurrences:
167902 addr:country
33252 addr:state
179741 addr:province
2950115 addr:city
2942159 addr:street
2934341 addr:housenumber
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matt...@mdarwin.ca
http
uch bigger now...
I was querying the postal codes where also there is a contact record)
On 2018-02-07 08:01 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
Hi all,
Below are the 10 top postal code formats in Canada as seen in
*addr:postcode*. When I get bored of tidying up phone numbers, I'll
t
Kevin thanks for the history lesson. As I mentioned on other threads,
I'm relatively new here, so I am missing the context, so I appreciate
you filling it in.
Looking at the 100 used "Town/City/Municipality of " names, they seem
to be entirely in Ontario. So perhaps this is mostly an
On 2018-02-12 06:05 PM, Stewart Russell wrote:
On Feb 12, 2018 17:51, "Matthew Darwin" <matt...@mdarwin.ca
<mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>> wrote:
Hi,
I am now reviewing the *addr**:city* tag. Seems we are not very
consistent how we use it. For example, Toro
ton 9666 City of Brantford 9603
Toronto 9487 Shawinigan 9384 City of Sarnia 9380 Red Deer 9102 City of
Windsor 9044 City Of Sault Ste. Marie 8466 Sudbury
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###
110 phone"###-
40 phone"+#-###-###-####;+#-###-###-
On 2018-02-07 06:46 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
A further update on this work:
* I found more yet bizarre phone-related tags "phone:1",
"telephone" and the like. These have all been tidied. My
osmfilte
Hi all,
Below are the 10 top postal code formats in Canada as seen in
*addr:postcode*. When I get bored of tidying up phone numbers, I'll
tackle some postal codes.
I hope we can all agree that "A#A #A#", which is the most popular, is
the correct format that should be used. The ones that
#-###-###-;+#-###-###-
25 phone"+#-###-###-
23 phone"+#-###-###-x###
17 phone"+# (###) ###-####
14 phone"+#-###-###-x
9 phone"+#-###-###-x#
On 2018-02-04 11:49 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
On Feb 4, 2018, at 8:37
Hi John,
I think this approach has merit.
Probably it would work if we take a similar approach to what
BikeOttawa is doing with OSM data, they wanted a "Level Of Traffic
Stress" map. To that they defined the set of interesting tags,
started collecting data, then draw a map. Now people are
James,
Good point about the quality and attributes of the data will
definitely not be consistent between municipalities. As long as the
source is identifiable, then the face it is one "file" or many, would
be an implementation detail. IMO.
On 2018-02-07 09:46 AM, James wrote:
why does it
l use ";" as multiple number separator.
* I will use "x" for extension.
* And I will be happy to cleanup the wonky ones with lots of text in
them if there is a direction of where this should move to.
Example for a radio station: "office (###) ###-; on-air studio
Ok, just I had to re-write more than just that one section to make it
coherent. Hopefully the page has a bit more logical structure now.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020
Comments and edits welcome!
On 2018-01-29 09:26 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
I
the pilot and the
resources we had available but even there I wasn't certain we would
be able to pull it off.
Cheerio John
2018-01-29 21:11 GMT-05:00 Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca
<mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>>:
+1
Unless someone has lots of $$$ to throw at OSM work (whi
+1
Unless someone has lots of $$$ to throw at OSM work (which could then
fund full time coordinators, trainers, lawyers, etc), the only way I
see to coordinate is to approach it like how OSM in Canada was build
up to now... distributed model with local groups doing what makes
sense for their
I think we can politely re-factor out much stuff. :-) Now that we
seem to have more folks looking into things, I am a bit more motivated
to spend time on it.
Tech writer type folks would be great to have.
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2018-01-28 09:21 PM
Just FYI, I am not doing an automated edit. One at a time in JOSM.
On 2018-01-28 10:23 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
On 2018-01-28 08:22 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
I am wondering if I should have them in the format of "+1 999
555 1234" or "+1-999-555-1234". If
a community profile that
is accessible and engaging for community partners.
Jonathan
*From: *Mikel Maron <mailto:mi...@mapbox.com>
*Sent: *Friday, January 26, 2018 10:37 AM
*To: *Matthew Darwin <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>
*Cc: *Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <mailt
Hi all,
Is there a preferred phone number format we use in Canada?
I noticed a bunch of phone numbers in Ottawa don't follow the
recommendations in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:phone, namely:
* phone=/number/ where the /number/ should be in international
(ITU-T E.164
Inline
On 2018-01-28 07:38 PM, john whelan wrote:
We have lots of people talking about this.
Yay!
We have a wiki page somewhere that covers some ground. Could
someone remind me of the address?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020
needs lots of
Forward from a very long distribution list:
Hi J,
So you are not aware of any Indigenous communities engaged with OSM
anywhere in Canada? It would be great if OSM could be introduced to
Indigenous community members so they can help define a direction.
Since you have contacts, can you help
Great, seems like we have a list of 3 ok ones:
Ottawa (approved license)
Gatineau + Montreal (explicit approval provided)
@James, do we have documentation as to where approval was given? Would
be good to have this info on the wiki.
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
Hi Steve,
I'm all for using the wiki, just want to consider the maintenance
effort of keeping the tasking manager in sync with the wiki. If
someone wants to do that, so much the better! Wikis can get stale
quickly without someone(s) to actively look at doing updates, like
you're doing.
!)
On 2018-01-25 11:39 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
On Jan 25, 2018, at 8:30 PM, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote:
I should mention that there are others in Ottawa working on completing the
buildings. The City import only had urban buildings. Since the city of Ottawa
is the largest
/project/100
On 2018-01-25 11:13 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
Hi Steve,
I'm not who the "movers and shakers" are really. There is nobody
really *driving* this project that I am aware of (the wiki suggests
we should have a steering committee). Every time I see email sent
to th
Hi Steve,
I'm not who the "movers and shakers" are really. There is nobody
really *driving* this project that I am aware of (the wiki suggests we
should have a steering committee). Every time I see email sent to
the original distribution list of people invited to the meeting last
Hi John,
After talking to many different folks about what their requirements
are for a cycling map, it is clear to me that the cycling routing
algorithm requires user-configurable tuning parameters. People have
different requirements at different times: from "find a nice path for
a 6 year
that
are not cyclable at this time of year.
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2018-01-23 03:25 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
Oops, the bicycle router I wanted to refer to in my previous is
http://cycle.travel by Richard Fairhurst (whom I inexplicably confused with
Simon Poole
couldn't collaborate better across the country on cycling
activities. Is there a national organization focused on cycling?
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2017-12-23 09:30 AM, john whelan wrote:
I think the OSM article uses a variety of inputs.
https://urbandatacyclis
éans Drive
Place-d’Orléans Drive
promenade de la Place-d’Orléans
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2017-12-04 06:57 AM, James wrote:
DES EPINETTES AVE
is english. Des Epinettes Avenue. French is avenue Des Epinettes.
Dont look hard for an Explaination why
ard
Orléans Boulevard
boulevard d’Orléans
promenade de la Place-d’Orléans Drive
Place-d’Orléans Drive
promenade de la Place-d’Orléans
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2017-12-04 06:57 AM, James wrote:
DES EPINETTES AVE
is english
you updated. In the mean time, if you have any ideas for how to
approach this, let me know. Thanks!
Martijn
On Oct 11, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org
<mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote:
Hi all,
Matthew Darwin pointed out on Github that some street
Hi all,
my 2c:
If we want to have a bunch of new to OSM people map things, I would
suggest that these is a *physical location* with *experts presen**t*.
As we see with the Carleton University example (not uOttawa), it's
hard to get new folks on board... i would guess that although there
Thanks J.P.
If at some point there is a more clear boundary maybe someone could
update the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_Brunswick to
give the rest of us more clear guidance.
On 2017-10-03 12:16 AM, J.P. Kirby wrote:
On 2017-10-03, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Darwin <m
n
the wiki next week.
Martijn
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:16 PM, J.P. Kirby
<webmas...@the506.com <mailto:webmas...@the506.com>> wrote:
On 2017-10-03, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Darwin
<matt...@mdarwin.ca <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>> wrote:
>
Tracey,
I just want to say some of the edits are really destructive: eg entire
streets are changed/removed (on campus and off campus). My automated
error checking script comparing what is in the City of Ottawa street
list and what is in OSM caught some errors, which I spent time
fixing.
Hi J.P.
This sounds reasonable. Do we have a map that shows which areas of
the province are French area vs English area. For us non-NBers. Or
I suppose one could guess by looking at the existing tags there. (I
would assume Fredericton is English area?) If we have a list then
could
No,
This is about the "desination" sign that you find on major highways,
usually they are green. "Exit 114 chemin Anderson Road" or whatever.
And this specific issue is about road signs in New Brunswick, and New
Brunswick is the only official bilingual province in Cana
Is there anyone on point to drive this activity?
On 2017-09-28 06:58 AM, john whelan wrote:
Looks like we need to talk nicely to Open-Ouvert.
Thanks John
On 27 September 2017 at 21:54, Stewart C. Russell > wrote:
On 2017-09-27 07:00 PM, john
Another good reason to create an organization that holds the keys to
key OSM resources... then it can out-survive all of us. :-)
On 2017-09-29 09:41 AM, James wrote:
I and others can give access to people to create projects on the
tasking manager. I understand that one person might disapear,
Yes.
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2017-09-28 12:17 PM, James wrote:
And as a local chapter new comers could suggest/view tasks to work
on. Kind of like what we did for Fort Mac.
A centralized communication hub would enable us to move forward and
concentrate our
tly about the use of OSM in names.
Cheerio John
On 27 September 2017 at 21:59, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com
<mailto:scr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 2017-09-27 05:49 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are any Canadian folks going to State of the Map US Octo
How do we want to move this discussion forward? Do we need to set up
a time to talk on the phone? I am willing to help coordinate logistics.
On 2017-09-17 10:55 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
On 2017-09-17 10:40 AM, john whelan wrote:
They'd like to extend it across Canada so now might be the
Hi,
Are any Canadian folks going to State of the Map US October 20-22
https://2017.stateofthemap.us/
During the conference, I would like to have a discussion about turning
the informal https://www.osmcanada.ca/ into a not-for-profit Canadian
corporation. I'm looking for other folks who
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